These rules didn’t used to exist, because they didn’t need to exist, because web design used to not go out of it’s way to kneecap the basic functionality of a person using a website. But here we are. So here are the new rules of web design for the hell that exists.
Will be fixed later.
I’ve always wanted to be able to put simple diagrams in this blog without going through the trouble of graphically creating them in LucidChart or Balsamiq. I just want to type in text, and have it convert to a chart.
All of this comes from reading everything in Martin Fowler’s https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/, and many of it’s linked articles.
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
Microservice architectural style: building applications as suites of services
Amazon has the idea of a Two Pizza Team - a team should be feedable by two pizzas
Smart Endpoints Dumb Pipes - There is no smart choreography of messages or central busses, just straight service calls over http or something similarly simple. At most, there are message queue services (e.g. rabbitmq).
How I write CSS.
I hand crafted the CSS for site. It’s still a work in progress. I learned that while semantic tags are good for HTML, they’re not that great for CSS.
font-feature-settings is a great CSS feature to play with, but it should probably be turned off in code blocks.
With Markdown and hightlight.js, that means adding this little piece of CSS to your stylesheet.
pre, code {
font-feature-settings: normal;
}